Could the General Assembly's revision of Gov. Terry McAuliffe's pilot program to cover some mental health and medical care for 20,000 low income Virginians with serious mental illness leave them in the same jam they feared landing in if they agreed to expand Medicaid?

With dozens of bills pending in conference committees -- the joint state Senate and House of Delegates panels assigned to resolve differences the versions of bills each body passes -- Speaker Bill Howell is asking colleagues to get a move on.

A bill meant to make it easier for public bodies to begin their meetings with a prayer, but that civil libertarians said was unnecessary and could end up confusing people about what prayers the Constitution does allow died in a state Senate committee.

It's not quite the same thing, being a city councilman in Richmond when it was the second deadliest city in nation, and trying to get a handle on the violence in Honduras, where murder rates are among the highest in the world.

Concerned by the Department of Defense decision to continue using a firm that has misplaced service men and women’s vehicles when shipping them to and from overseas assignments, Sen. Mark R. Warner pressed the United States Transportation Command for details about what, exactly, the...

Some things change. Some don’t. Some, though, get better, as Sen. Tim Kaine found when he swung by the small town of El Progreso, Honduras, as he and Sen John Cornyn, R-Texas, travel through Latin America to study regional security and economic issues.

Even as we grumble about the inescapability of ’16 election talk (especially since we still have a 2015 state election to get through) it’s hard for political junkies to resist a poll and so: Quinnipiac University’s latest swing state survey has Hillary Clinton tied with Jeb...